Friday, 20 March 2009

Roman Baths, Aqueducts, Engineering n things

a website in the course of construction and which has commisioned me to write some contributions, my piece today was inspired by two gems I was reminded of /came across

a) the bit of script in the Life of Brian which goes something like this"All right... all right... but apart from better sanitation and medicine and education and irrigation and public health and roads and a freshwater system and baths and public order... what have the Romans done for us?"and b) a funny piece of doggerel by an Australian who explained why the whole World ended up with railway carriages that run on tracks four feet eight and one-half inches wide. (The Stephenson Gauge or Standard Gauge)

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I am retired. I now golf, do local history and build websites. There's a writer/publisher in me and I enjoy creating the written published word via the wondrous internet. I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
I just wrote that but Oscar Wilde wrote it first